"An intriguing view of a historian's journey through the last century... a pleasure to read. With this memoir, von Klemperer joins the ranks of other historian memoirists such as Peter Gay, Felix Gilbert, and Werner Angress. It is a thoughtful and interesting account of what it was like to be a conservative historian of Germany in the decades after 1945." - Catherine Epstein, Associate Professor of History, Amherst College
The account of the author's life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars....
"An intriguing view of a historian's journey through the last century... a pleasure to read. With this memoir, von Klemperer joins the ranks of oth...